Russia condemned this Sunday at least 25 dead and 20 injured in the explosion against a market in the city of Donetsk, in eastern Ukraine although still under Moscow’s rule, for which he blamed Ukrainian forces.

This was announced by the leader of the region of the same name, annexed by Russia in September 2022, pro-Russian Denis Pushilin. “At the moment we have confirmed information about 25 deaths. At least 20 more people were injured, and“There are two children among them, both in moderate condition,” – he clarified in a message released by his press service.

The Ministry of Emergency Situations limited itself to confirming to the Russian TASS agency that the victims were injured.loss of various considerations, without giving more details at this time.

Earlier, the mayor of the city, Alexei Kulemzin, reported on his Telegram channel that 18 were killed and 13 were wounded as a result of the terrorist attack. He called it “monstrous.”

“The attack was carried out by artillery fire combined with Shells of 152 and 155 millimeters caliber,” he said.

The market damaged by the bombing is located in the Tekstilshchik microdistrict in the southwest of Donetsk, a city over which Ukraine lost control in 2014 and which is ten kilometers from the front line. so he is within range of Ukrainian artillery.

The attack on Donetsk occurred at the moment Escalation of hostilities on the Ukrainian Eastern Frontwhere Russian troops made some progress last day, according to the US think tank Institute for the Study of War (ISW).

Russia assures that it is taking the initiative on all fronts, while Ukraine says it supports ‘active defence’ containing the advance of Moscow troops.

Ukraine announced attacks on gas terminal and military facilities in Russia

For its part, Ukrainian military intelligence said this Sunday that attacks on a Russian gas terminal on the Baltic Sea coast and against various military facilities in the Smolensk, Tula and Oryol regions of Russia.

According to a source in Ukrainian military intelligence, quoted by RBC media, a fire that broke out at the Novatek liquefied gas terminal in Ust-Luga, in the Gulf of Finland, This is due to the impact of the Ukrainian drone.

“The shot was accurate. This led to a large fire that is still ongoing. The Russians were forced to evacuate their employees,” the source said.

“Fuel is processed there, which, in particular, It goes to the Russian army. “A successful attack on this terminal not only causes economic losses to the enemy, depriving him of the opportunity to make money from the war in Ukraine, but also significantly complicates fuel logistics for the Russian army,” he added.

Ust-Luga is located 35 kilometers from the border with Estonia. and almost a thousand kilometers from the border with Ukraine, although in the Leningrad region, where it is located, two incidents against crude oil fields have already been recorded this week, which Kyiv called attacks.

Meanwhile, military intelligence told several Ukrainian media outlets that the target in Tula, south of Moscow, was a plant where Anti-aircraft missile systems “Pantsir-S”.and the attack in Smolensk (in the west) was directed against an aircraft factory.

The Russian Ministry of Defense today reported that a plane was shot down last night. five Ukrainian drones over the Smolensk and Tula regions.

Four unmanned vehicles went tosmoothies in the Smolensk region, neighboring Belarus, the department said in a statement published on Telegram, and the fifth drone was intercepted in Tula.

Simultaneously A fire at the terminal in Ust-Luga, which, according to Novatek, – the largest Russian exporter of liquefied gas – was due to an “external factor”.

(according to information from Europe Press And EFE)